Surcingle



(No Model.)

W. G. GRIMES.

SUROINGLE.

No. 433,000. Patented July 29, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VALLACE G. CRIMES, OF NEIV LONDON, CONNECTICUT.

SURCINGLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 433,000, dated July 29, 1890.

Application filed August 21, 1889. Serial No. 321,495. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, \VALLACE G. GRIMES, of New London, in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Surcingles, of which the following is a specificatlOn.

My improvement is designed to prevent horses from rolling over in the stall or elsewhere, by which action injury might result to the horse.

I will describein detail a surcingle embodying my improvements, and then point out the novel features in a claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an edge view of a surcingle embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of the same, portions of the surcingle being broken away to save space. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the same, taken on the line 00 00, Fig. 2. Figs. 2 and 3 are drawn to a larger scale than Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

In carrying out my improvement I provide the surcingle near that portion thereof upon the back and adjacent to the spine when in position. on the horse withoutwardly-extending projections, which, when the horse attempts to roll over, will cause such pressure to be exerted upon the back of the horse as will compel the horse to abandon the attempt. These projections may be of any suitable kind, and may be secured to the surcingle in any suitable manner; but I have shown a convenient construction and arrangement in the accompanying drawings, in which A designates the surcingle, which may be of any suitable material, and provided with straps a and buckles a, by which it may be secured about the horse. About midwayin the length of the surcingle, or at that part thereof which will be adjacent to the spine of the horse when the surcingle is in position, I place pads 13. These pads may be of wood covered with cloth or other suitable material b.

C designates the projections for preventing the horse from rolling over. The projections here shown are formed of metal rods,bent at about midway in the lengths of the rods, and the two ends are secured in metallic plates D by riveting up or otherwise.

In securing the parts together the pads B are placed in suitable position upon one side of the surcingle, and the metal plates with the projections thereon are placed upon the other side of the surcingle opposite the pads. The metal plates are then'screwed down to the pads, as shown more clearly in Fig. 2, the screws passing through the surcingle and thus securing all the parts together.

Although I have shown two of the projections C, I may use more than two.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A surcingle provided with a continuous portion to extend over the back of a horse, pads upon the under side of the surcingle, plates upon the upper side of the surcingle and secured to the latter and the pads, and metallic projections extending outwardly from the u pper sides of said plates fora distance beyond said plates, substantially as specified.

\VALLACE G. CRIMES.

\Vitnesses:

C. A. BISHOP, R. D. MANWARING. 

